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Holbeck

Holbeck is an inner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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The place

Holbeck is an inner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It begins on the southern edge of Leeds city centre and mainly lies in the LS11 postcode district. The M1 and M621 motorways used to end/begin in Holbeck. Now the M621 is the only motorway that passes through the area since the end of the M1 moved to Hook Moor near Aberford. Since large parts of Holbeck have been vacated in preparation for the regeneration of the area, the district has in large parts suffered from a population exodus. Holbeck had a population of 5,505 in 2011. The district currently falls within the Beeston and Holbeck ward of Leeds City Council.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Holbeck

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    University of Leeds

    The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science.

    2 km · university in Leeds, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Elland Road

    Elland Road, or Elland Road Stadium, is a football stadium in Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which has been the home of Leeds United since the club's formation in 1919. With a capacity of 37,633, the stadium is the 14th largest football stadium in England.

    1.7 km · football stadium in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Leeds Beckett University

    Leeds Beckett University, formerly known as Leeds Metropolitan University and before that as Leeds Polytechnic, is a public university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It has campuses in the city centre and Headingley.

    1.7 km · university in Leeds, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Rothwell

    Rothwell is a town in the south-east of the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England, situated between Leeds city centre and Wakefield. It is located in the eponymous Rothwell ward of Leeds City Council and Wakefield and Rothwell parliamentary constituency, and is part of the West Yorkshire Urban Area.

    6.5 km · market town in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Leeds Cathedral

    Leeds Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Anne, also known as Saint Anne's Cathedral, is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds, and is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Leeds. It is in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

    1.4 km · catholic cathedral in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Headingley Stadium

    Headingley Stadium is a stadium complex in Headingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Linked by a two-sided stand housing common facilities, it comprises two separate grounds: Headingley Cricket Ground and Headingley Rugby Stadium.

    3.6 km · sports ground in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Kirkstall Abbey

    Kirkstall Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery in Kirkstall, north-west of Leeds city centre in West Yorkshire, England. It is set in a public park on the north bank of the River Aire.

    4.9 km · Cistercian monastery in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds

    The Diocese of Leeds is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church centred on Leeds Cathedral in the city of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It was founded on 20 December 1878, with the splitting of the Diocese of Beverley, which had covered all of Yorkshire.

    1.6 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Headingley Cricket Ground

    Headingley Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in the Headingley Stadium complex in Headingley, Leeds, England. It adjoins the Headingley Rugby Stadium through a shared main stand, although the main entrance to the cricket ground is at the opposite Kirkstall Lane end.

    3.7 km · cricket ground · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Leeds Art Gallery

    Leeds Art Gallery in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a gallery, part of the Leeds Museums & Galleries group, whose collection of 20th-century British Art was designated by the British government in 1997 as a collection "of national importance". Its collection also includes 19th-century and earlier art works.

    1.3 km · municipal art gallery in England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Holbeck

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 11 km · Manchester (MAN), 68 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 99 km
Stations
Leeds railway station, 800 m · Headingley railway station, 4.1 km · Burley Park railway station, 3 km · Batley railway station, 9.9 km · New Pudsey railway station, 8.4 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Holbeck
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £6–8
  • Liverpool → Holbeck
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £10–14
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Holbeck
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–14
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Holbeck

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Holbeck. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFerries sail overnight from Rotterdam (Netherlands) to Kingston upon Hull.
  • Get inHull is an hour by train or car from Leeds, and the ferry port is 3 miles east of Hull city centre: buses run from there to the railway station.
  • Go nextLeeds is a major transport hub, so many outlying attractions can be done as day trips.

From Wikivoyage: Leeds, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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  2. 02
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  4. 04
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  5. 05
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If you know how people move in Holbeck – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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